Blender Flip Normals To Outside
For the second when extruding new geometry off a closed mesh first remove the faces that would remain inside the extrusion and then extrude only the edges.
Blender flip normals to outside. To manually flip a normal first select your desired faces. Inside and outside are determined by the angles with adjacent faces. The volume does not need to be closed. Instead of recalculate press flip direction shortcut.
Go to mesh normals recalculate outside shortcut. To access the option and or correct an inside out or inverted face first select the errant mesh element in edit mode 1 using vertex edge or face and from the mesh menu upper left click normals 2 then flip 3 from the options that appear mesh normals flip. Shift n to recalculate the normals. For blender 2 8 users the command has changed a little bit.
The volume does not need to be closed. Alternatively use alt n to access the normals context menu then select flip. Ctrl n and shift ctrl n these tools will recalculate the normals of selected faces so that they point outside respectively inside the volume that the face belongs to. The highlighted inverted face s will immediately invert based on their current orientation.
Win xp ati radeon 9600 pro blender 2 33a. Ctrl n and shift ctrl n these tools will recalculate the normals of selected faces so that they point outside respectively inside the volume that the face belongs to. Normals recalculate outside appears to flips the normal alternating between inside and outside rather than always recalculate them outside.